QOTW: How much storage do you have inside your main PC?

[Millennium]

500gb 850 evo is all that's in my system at the moment.

I have 4*2tb hard drives, just haven't got them hooked up or screwed in at the moment! Need to change case to do that, hmmmmph.

[N3mesis]

512GB 850 Pro and 1.5TB WD Black. so about 2TB total.

[3dcandy]

Currently at 480gb SSD boot and 2tb HDD. But I do have 4 tb NAS box too
Interesting to say I've just got an S7 and have snagged 105 gb of Onedrive storage

[gordon861]

What other options are there, I'm talking about tb's of data I don't know of any other way. And the raid would work I understand your point of it not being a perfect solution but other than buying another set of hdds (which again is another point of failure) what other cost effective options exist?

I dont think you understand the term, 'point of failure' in context. If you have 24TB of data all running through a single RAID card, a failure in the RAID card can result in total 24TB of data loss. It's a single point in the system that can result in total data loss.
If you have another set of drives with duplicated data from the RAID array (whether the second set of drives is an array or not is irrelevant) then if the RAID card dies, you still have a copy of the data. This does not add an addition point of failure, it protects you from the existing one. This is a backup and is the only way to properly protect your data.

As Peter said, RAID Is not a replacement for backup. It does not protect your data, it offers a level of protection for a drive failure but has risks associated with it, especially when using a striped array (such as 5 or 6).

There is no 'cost effective' alternative solutions. This is simply the cost of proper data management.

What I did for my media library is I built a couple of identical PCs one for operation and one for backup (but you could just build a backup machine).

These PCs use a fanless Mini-ITX board with 6x SATA connectors and 6x WD Red HDs in them (sized to match the source machine), running Win7/10 (sure you could use LINUX too though). The backup PC just sits there running for ever in the loft/shed/garage.

I then run BitTorrent Sync on both machines and setup the main machine as the master and the low power as the slave unit. BTsync then whenever something is added to my live library it is then also copied to the backup machine. I probably have about 10TB of TV series, documentaries and movies backup like this, any DVD I buy is only ever played once in my main PC to rip it them put away.

[Gunbuster]

512mb boot SSD and two 960GB SSDs for Data and Games. No spininng rust in my PC thanks ;-)

[circuitmonkey]

2.25tb

[mark_a_scott]

512GB SSD and 2x 6TB HDDs

[Ulti]

I'm probably the only one that has gone "backwards" with less storage. I've ditched my HDDs and just on 500GB + 250GB Samsung 850 EVOs now. When a 1TB NVMe drive drops to around £100 is when I'll buy more storage.

[uksnapper]

125gb ssd for boot,60mb ssd for photodhop scratch ,76gb Raptor for current work ,4tb archive, 2 tb temporary back up.2x 4tb external duplicating internal archive .
All for Photoshop.
All finished work also written to DVD.
A lot more space now due to larger camera files.

[whatif]

My PC I use the most is a mini PC used as a HTPC with 4x msata ports + 1x sata (4th msata is for the wifi card) -
2x 1TB msata SSD's
1x 512GB msata SSD
1x 2TB HDD
= 4.5TB

First 1TB msata has triple boot OS (XP 64bit for a couple of old programs, win 8.1 Pro 64bit with media center for TV tuners and win 10 64bit for playing), programs, and other assorted data on it
Second 1TB msata has other media on it (photo's, music, games)
Third msata has up to date back up copies of OS's, games and programs.
2TB HDD has recorded TV shows from 2x Hauppaugge dual TV tuners.

[Euphonium]

1.5TB of SSD and 16.5TB of HDD. This is very slightly less than what I had a year ago, as I've replaced a 120GB SSD and 1.5TB HDD with a 500GB SSD and 1TB SSD

In that same year I've expanded my external storage from 33TB to 48TB

[Exetric]

500GB SDD, upgraded recently from a 250GB SSD.

[Oobie-]

Just over 6TB with a 3TB external.
Rookie setup with no RAID

I started down a terrible path and will pay for it in the future but the thought of 'sorting out' my data scares me a bit.

[SineWave]

I actually use less storage on my main PC than a couple of years ago, because I use far more external hard disks. I find them very convenient because my PC is utterly quiet now, and uses less power with just one SSD inside it. Who needs dozens of Gigabytes of storage available 24/7? You only need it occasionally, and usually for keeping big multimedia files. I've got several 500MB and up external hard disks for archiving. People who work with multimedia files can get away with having one hard disk installed into the PC aside from SSD.

[Jacob1]

2TB HDD and a 500GB SSD

[bromax333]

2 x 2TB - HDD
1 x 1TB - SSD
1 x 260 GB - SSD